In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.