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.

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.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

A babe is a mother's anchor.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.