“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”

“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”

“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”

“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”

“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.”

“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”

“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”

“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”

“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”

“To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.”

“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”