There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

All that harms labor is treason to America.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.