Suicide is not a remedy

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

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.

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

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

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.