A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

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.

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

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

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

Right reason is stronger than force.