I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.