I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.
Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.
A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.
He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.
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...
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phan...
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
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