The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

If all my talents and powers were to be taken from me by some unscrutable Providence, and I had my choice of keeping but one, I would unhesitatingly ask for be allowed to keep the Power of Speaking, for through it I would quickly recover all the rest.

There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power; but there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake, and that is, the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world.

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

There is always room at the top.