My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

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.

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

A noble book! all men's book!

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.