Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

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.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

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.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

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.