In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?