The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

[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.

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

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

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