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.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.