A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects.