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.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

I am a part and parcel of God.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

We are wiser than we know.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

You cannot do a kindness too soon.