These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.