It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America. Neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in Mythology than in any history of America so called that I have seen.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his opinion is that he is aggrieved? If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.