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

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.