Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

Law never made men a whit more just.

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves