It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.