A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Lies exist only to be extinguished.

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

No violent extreme endures.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

Affectation is the product of falsehood.