Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

It was a country life, a precious existence.

My center is giving way my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking.

There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.

I am resolved, to go and plant myself in Holland or in Zeeland, and there await the issue which it shall please Him to ordain.