Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

It is defeat which educates us.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.