Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.