Every child begins the world again.

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.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.

There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.