Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

We moralize among ruins.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.