Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of prejudice? What is it to be born free and equal, and not to live? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

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.

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.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.