It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

I say, break the law.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.