Habit is stronger than reason.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.