The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Beauty is the promise of happiness.