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

“We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.”

“If we will not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work, the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go on far better than now, and the heaven predicted from the beginning of the world, and still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself, as do now the rose, and the air, and the sun.”

“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

“Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.”

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

“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”