I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.

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

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

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

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.