The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.