The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.

The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.