To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

Be not a slave of words.

History is the new poetry.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.