Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

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

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.