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

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

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

Ideas control the world.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

For love of country, they accepted death.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.