Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.