Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.