The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.