A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.