Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!