Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.