The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
Lincoln, the Man of the People
In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.
He fed his spirit with the bread of books
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.