"Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and insult you, and smite you?"

"I have no doubt that the universe is a friendly place."

"I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the U…"

"I am a free man, and I shall always be a free man."

"I believe in the perfectibility of human nature. I believe that man is an animal that can be perfected."