The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

True wit never made us laugh.

It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.