What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.