All men desire to be immortal

If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your …

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

The world no doubt grows better; comfort is increased from age to age.

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

If it shall ever be so, still the great ideas which I have set forth, of man, of God, of religion, — they will endure, and one day will be "a flame in the heart of all mankind."