Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

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.

All the devils respect virtue.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.