When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.