Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.