There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

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

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

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