If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.