“I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me.”

“Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.”

“That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.”

“Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.”

“Es un buen libro aquel que se abre con expectación y se cierra con provecho”.”

“Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.”

“Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.”