The soil is the gift of God to the living.

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. For what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.