Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Nature hates calculators.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.