A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

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

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

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.

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