“Statistics are no substitue for judgement.”

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”

“Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.”

“An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.”

“The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”

“I hope that it will yet be said, America is America's best customer.”

“I inhaled the musty, leathery, old-papery scent and a shiver passed over me. If I had any idea of heaven, it was this: shelves and shelves of books, ten times as many as were upstairs, each with stories or pictures more exciting and beautiful than the next, and two overstuffed chairs big enough for me to sleep in.”