We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.