The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
Public opinion is a second conscience.
The most terrible of all things is terror.
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.