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 is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Mirth is God's medicine.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.