His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.