Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.