“When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.”

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

“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.”

“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.”

“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”

“We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.”

“Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.”

“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.”

“If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.”

“What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.”

“Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.”