I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

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.

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.

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

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.