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.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?