Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Leaders: Captains of industry.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.