The heart is the best logician.

Hearts are stronger than swords.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.

Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.