I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.

There is no history of how bad became better.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.