The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.