There is no college for the conscience.

A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

Love is the piety of the affections.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.