Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

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

Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

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

To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant