I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.