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

“ Beauty is the promise of happiness. ”

“ To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ”

“ A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. ”

“ It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. ”

“ Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ”

“ 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. ”

“ When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ”

“ Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. ”

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