“He may have his experiences of cheerful and exciting pleasures abroad; but home is the best, after all, and its pleasures are the most heartily and enduringly prized.”

Contrasting novelty and travel with the deeper satisfactions of home · Speech, London, 30 December 1854

• Home
• Joy

“Above all, that nothing is high, because it is in a high place; and that nothing is low, because it is in a low one.”

Rejecting social rank as a measure of moral worth · Speech, 7 February 1842

• Truth

“I have only to add that I shall be as true to you as you have been to me.”

Offering loyalty in return for trust and welcome · Speech, New York, 18 February 1842

• Friendship
• Truth