It Matters Infinitely Less What

I Wrote Because I Could Not Help It. There Was Something That I Wanted To Say, And I Said It: That Was All. The Fame And The Money And The Usefulness Might Or Might Not Follow. It Was Not By My Endeavor If They Did.

Scarcely Anything That I Observed In The United States Caused Me So Much Sorrow As The Contemptuous Estimate Of The People Entertained By Those Who Were Bowing The Knee To Be Permitted To Serve Them.

Fidelity To Conscience Is Inconsistent With Retiring Modesty. If It Be So, Let The Modesty Succumb. It Can Be Only A False Modesty Which Can Be Thus Endangered.

The Systematic Abuse With Which The Newspapers Of One Side Assail Every Candidate Coming Forward On The Other, Is The Cause Of Many Honorable Men, Who Have A Regard To Their Reputation, Being Deterred From Entering Public Life; And Of The People Being Thus Deprived Of Some Better Servants Than Any They Have.

Any One Must See At A Glance That If Men And Women Marry Those Whom They Do Not Love, They Must Love Those Whom They Do Not Marry.