The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.