The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

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

Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.