Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.