Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.