It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.

The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.

I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

All authority belongs to the people.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.