Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.