The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

Hope is the mother of faith.

God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it; and the other's when we have had it for some time.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.