The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

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.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

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