Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.

Feeling loves a subdued light.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.