Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.