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

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

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