It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

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

It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

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