Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: "Let us be friends."

Commerce is the great civilizer.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.