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

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

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

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

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

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

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