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

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political authority, though it be confided to masses, cannot be trusted without positive limitations, men in bodies being but an aggregation of the passions, weaknesses and interests of men as individuals.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.