The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.