Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.