Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.