Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.