The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.