Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.