Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction".

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.

When in doubt, do without.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.