A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.