No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.