"The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars."
"In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others."
"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."
"I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species."
"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."
"It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government."
"Oppression is wrong. Species don't matter."