Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.