A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.