The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels we can remember the lower levels, but when on the lower we cannot remember the higher.

I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.

God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.