The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

There is no God dare wrong a worm.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.