So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion. His taste may not suit his neighbors; but so long as his deportment is correct, they have no right to interfere with his concerns.