Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.