My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.