The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

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.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.

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