If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.