He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

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

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.