Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ability without honor has no value.

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.