“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs”

“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!”

“If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter”

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

“Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few”

“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay”