A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.