How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.