Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.