A Soul Occupied With Great Ideas Performs

Readers Are Plentiful; Thinkers Are Rare.

Must Love Be Ever Treated With Profaneness As A Mere Illusion? Or With Coarseness As A Mere Impulse? Or With Fear As A Mere Disease? Or With Shame As A Mere Weakness? Or With Levity As A Mere Accident? Whereas It Is A Great Mystery And A Great Necessity, Lying At The Foundation Of Human Existence, Morality, And Happiness,--mysterious, Universal, Inevitable As Death.

Any One Must See At A Glance That If Men And Women Marry Those Whom They Do Not Love, They Must Love Those Whom They Do Not Marry.

In The United States, As Elsewhere, There Are, And Have Always Been, Two Parties In Politics ... It Is Remarkable How Nearly Their Positive Statements Of Political Doctrine Agree, While They Differ In Almost Every Possible Application Of Their Common Principles.

I Would Not Exchange My Freedom From Old Superstition, If I Were To Be Burned At The Stake Next Month, For All The Peace And Quiet Of Orthodoxy, If I Must Take The Orthodoxy With Peace And Quiet.