Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

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.

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.