Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.