The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

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.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.