The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.

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.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

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

The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.

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