I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.