If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.