Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

I am conscious of eternal life.