He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

Boswell is the first of biographers.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!