I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.