What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.