To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.