Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.