Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.