We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.