The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the world as the former examples we had give them. The constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberation, is unquestionably the wisest ever yet presented to men.

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