The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?