You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.