Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

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

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

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.'