Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

Man is but the place where I stand.