Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.