I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to sin and perdition, and Christ as their rescuer from that doom. I never was more or less behuiled by the trickery of language by which the perdition of man is made out to be justice, and his redemption to be mercy.

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.