The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.