Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.

No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man has a right to desert his children if he can possibly be of use. As long as he can add to the comfort of those he loves, as long as he can . . . be of any use, it is his duty to remain.