No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.