"Taste cannot be controlled by law." — Thomas Jefferson

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.