If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.