Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.