When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

It's a luxury to be understood.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.