Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

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.

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.

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

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.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.