Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.