“It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings.
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense
“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
“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!