Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

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.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.