Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!