It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.