I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.