One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

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