Tortured for the Republic.

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

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