"I heartily accept the motto, — 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which al…"

"It is not so important that many should be as good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump."

"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step…"

"The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor."

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."