From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man’s duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at...

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled...

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any...

Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slopkettles

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human...

It is not the greatness of a man’s means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants

The slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world

Please your eye and plague your heart

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest...

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary (monetary) matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded...

You never know what you can do till you try.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

. . . for, however roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do...

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ”speculation”; but...

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of...

You never know what you can do till you try