No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

Official truth is not actual truth.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.

Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.