Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

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

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.