In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.