The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Of all exercises, walking is the best.

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.