Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.