What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man, yet it lives on fruits - therefore if man followed nature, he would live on fruits and vegetables. But though the anatomical likeness between man and monkeys is striking, yet it is not complete; the difference may be and doubtless is precisely that which makes a difference of diet necessary to nourish and develope their dissimilar natures. Those who should live as the monkeys do would most closely resemble them.

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people....The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.