By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.