“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of feeble minds”

“I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.”

“We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsmen who cannot read at all, and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.”

“The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind”

“Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.”

“If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?”

“Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.”