It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.