The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.