I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

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

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

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.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.