Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.