O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

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

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.