I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

The sun is but a morning star.

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. ... Shall we always study to obtain more, and not sometimes be content with less?