I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

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.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

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

One example is worth a thousand arguments.