Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.
It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.
In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.
Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.
A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high.
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
God wants to bring victory to a people who recognize who brought it.
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!