You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

There is a crack in everything God has made

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.