Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.