“ Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. ”

“ But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. ”

“ The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. ”

“ Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. ”

“ Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. ”

“ But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ”

“ Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. ”

“ Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. ”

“ Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. ”

“ Our patience will achieve more than our force. ”