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.

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

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.'

Tortured for the Republic.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

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