Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.