Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.