Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief..

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State wh….

Tyranny is always weakness.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace..

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many..

Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their….

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not..

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character..

And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race..

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it..

History is clarified experience..

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din..

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the ….

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work ….

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning..

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of superse….

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time..

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne..

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, W….

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous ….