Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.