We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

I would stand upon facts.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?