These are the days that must happen to you.

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.