"We are always getting ready to live but never living."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

"The less government we have, the better—the fewer laws, and the less confided power."

"We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we are conservatives."

"The world is an immense impression, the copy of an aboriginal, or elder world, which God made once for all."