That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.

... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.