A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.