All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.