A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

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

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

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