The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.