The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

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

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

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 prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.