For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.