A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.