To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

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

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.