[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.