We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.