Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.