It Matters Infinitely Less What We Do

There Have Been Few Things In My Life Which Have Had A More Genial Effect On My Mind Than The Possession Of A Piece Of Land.

If There Is Any Country On Earth Where The Course Of True Love May Be Expected To Run Smooth, It Is America.

I Would Not Exchange My Freedom From Old Superstition, If I Were To Be Burned At The Stake Next Month, For All The Peace And Quiet Of Orthodoxy, If I Must Take The Orthodoxy With Peace And Quiet.

It Is Characteristic Of Genius To Be Hopeful And Aspiring. It Is Characteristic Of Genius To Break Up The Artificial Arrangements Of Conventionalism, And To View Mankind In True Perspective, In Their Gradations Of Inherent Rather Than Of Adventitious Worth. Genius Is Therefore Essentially Democratic, And Has Always Been So.

The Systematic Abuse With Which The Newspapers Of One Side Assail Every Candidate Coming Forward On The Other, Is The Cause Of Many Honorable Men, Who Have A Regard To Their Reputation, Being Deterred From Entering Public Life; And Of The People Being Thus Deprived Of Some Better Servants Than Any They Have.