The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

Health is the requisite after morality

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.