I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

Our best history is still poetry.

Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.