The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

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

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

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.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.