Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

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

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

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.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

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

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