Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.