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.

Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on the principle of revenge." They do not know the man. They must enlarge themselves to conceive of him.... They have got to conceive of a man of faith and of religious principle, and not a politician or an Indian; of a man who did not wait till he was personally interfered with or thwarted in some harmless business before he gave his life to the cause of the oppressed.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.