Commerce is the great civilizer.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

Hope is the consolation of the world.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.