Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.

Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

The heart is the best logician.