There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

I do believe that half a dozen commonplace attorneys could so mystify and misconstrue the Ten Commandments, and so confuse Moses' surroundings on Mount Sinai, that the great law-giver, if he returned to this planet, would doubt his own identity, abjure every one of his deliverances, yea, even commend the very sins he so clearly forbade his people.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.