The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.