An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man..

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a her….

Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world..

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth..

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen..

he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in….

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways..

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle..

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity..

All the devils respect virtue..

An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than t….

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature..

We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature,….

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is aft….

All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life..

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character..

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well..

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whitherso….

Conversation is a game of circles..

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first..

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.