The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.