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

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

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

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.

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

Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.