Let me tell you that between George Witherspoon's class and me there is but little affinity.

You may call me a crank, and perhaps I am, but I was poor so long that I felt a sort of pride in the fight I was compelled to make.
Poverty has its arrogance, and foppery is sometimes found in rags.

I don't mind telling you that I have been strongly urged to take what is called my place in the world; but that place is so distasteful to me that I look on it with a shudder.

I despise barter--I am compelled to buy, but I am not forced to sell.

I am not a sentimentalist--if I were I should attempt to write poetry.