Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

We never touch but at points.