Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.