Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.