The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

There is a crack in everything God has made