A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.