The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Self respect knows no considerations.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the corinthian capital of polished society.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.