Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.