Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.