Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

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.

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

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

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

Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

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