In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow and expression of the love which has become the central principle of their life.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.