Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family friends and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.