We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.