We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.