Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

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.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.