A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person born after that day should ever acquire the rights of citizenship until he could read and write. It is impossible sufficiently to estimate the wisdom of this provision. Of all those which have been thought of for securing fidelity in the administration of the government, constant reliance to the principles of the constitution, and progressive amendments with the progressive advances of the human mind or changes in human affairs, it is the most effectual.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.