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

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

Suicide is not a remedy

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Tortured for the Republic.

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.