Life has a higher end, than to be amused

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

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.

Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.