In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back ….

Life is too short to read inferior books..

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it..

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men..

The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupu….

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of th….

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, a….

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it..

If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books..

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculia….