The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.