The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.