One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.