No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

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

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

The business of everybody is the business of nobody.