“I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.”

“I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”

“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams”

“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”

“If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”

“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”

“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”