Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

I like man, but not men.

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.