You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.