I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.

The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into the administration of them in every function to which they are sufficient; they will err sometimes and accidentally, but never designedly, and with a systematic and persevering purpose of overthrowing the free principles of the government.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.