Without bread all is misery.

Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle, if, unhappily, you have been bred up in such slavery.

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.