Tortured for the Republic.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

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.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.