We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

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