We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.

We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.