Education is a nation's cheapest defence

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!