I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

I was raised to farm work.