Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent |
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may. |
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. |
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body. |
Please your eye and plague your heart |
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. |
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. |
The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed. |
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. |
The slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle. |
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor |
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor |
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. |
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility |
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous. |