Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.