Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

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.

There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does; there are certain principles which limit this right. Society has got the murderer within four walls; he never can do any more harm. Has society any need to take that man's life to protect itself? If any society has only the right that the individual has, she has no right to inflict the penalty of death, because she can effectually restrain the individual from ever again committing his offence.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.