In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.

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.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

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.

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

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.