The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.