A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

States are great engines moving slowly.