If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.

The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.