The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.