If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.