Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.