The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

Love does not analyze its object.

We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it. We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.