The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.