No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.

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

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

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.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.