It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life

True love is the parent of humility.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.