Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.