Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.