I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.