If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

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.'

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

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

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

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