Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.