A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.