I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.