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

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.

Right reason is stronger than force.

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

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.