One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.
The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.
I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.
One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.
We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.
My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.
Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it.