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.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

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.