It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

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

I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'

Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

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

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.