I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.