"I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were…"

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."

"I heartily accept the motto, — 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which al…"

"To be great is to be misunderstood."