To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

Politics is but a narrow field.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.