My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.