They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

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

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.

Silence is sorrow's best food.