Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.