All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

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.

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.