These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.