Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

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

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.