We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.

The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.