Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.