Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.