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

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.

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

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

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.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.