The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

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

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show