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

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.