Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!