"I would rather be a corn-stalk in the field than a man in society."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"The government is best which governs not at all."

"'Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.'"

"I heartily accept the motto, — 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which al…"