What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.

In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by men little removed by their wealth or education above the level of those whom they employ.