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.

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

I am going to put the Bible out of business.