Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.