Objects of charity are not guests.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.