My Policy Is Trust Peace

Shall The Railroads Govern The Country, Or Shall The People Govern The Railroads? Shall The Interest Of Railroad Kings Be Chieflyregarded, Or Shall The Interest Of The People Be Paramount?

Abolish Plutocracy If You Would Abolish Poverty.

The Best Hopes Of Any Community Rest Upon That Class Of Its Gifted Young Men Who Are Not Encumbered With Large Possessions.... I Now Speak Of Extensive Scholarship And Ripe Culture In Science And Art.... It Is Not Large Possessions, It Is Large Expectations, Or Rather Large Hopes, That Stimulate The Ambition Of The Young.

[t]his Free And Easy Old-bachelor Sort Of Life Is Quite Full Of Fun And Jollity. Pease And Myself Room Together; And Everything Like Order And Neatness Is Banished From Our Presence As A Nuisance--old Letters And Old Boots And Shoes, Duds Clean And Duds Dirty, Books And Newspapers, Tooth-brushes, Shoe-brushes, And Clothes-brushes, All Heaped Together On Chairs, Settees, Etc., In Dusty And "most Admired Confusion." Now, What Is There Imaginable In Clean, Tidy Private Life Equal To This?

You Know I Am Given To Antiquarian And Genealogical Pursuits. An Old Family Letter Is A Delight To My Eyes. I Can Prowl In Old Trunks Of Letters By The Day With Undiminished Zest.