"What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."

"The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people."

"Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success."

"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."