"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."

"I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone."

"Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time."

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without."

"The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands."

"Captial punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life."

"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

"Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do."

"I am a part of all I have seen."

"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."

"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."