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 have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

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

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

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.'

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.