“Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.”

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

The future is purchased by the present.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Conscience is God present in man.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

A quiet conscience makes one strong!