If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world. We see how past ages have loitered and erred. "Is perhaps our generation free from irrationality and error? Have we perhaps reached now the summit of human wisdom, and need no more to look out for mental or physical improvement?" Undoubtedly, we are never so visionary as to be prepared for what the next hour may bring forth.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.