Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.