When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.