The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.