A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.