If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

Meekness is the mask of malice.

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.