Spring-an experience in immortality.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest, and there is not yet the sound of any bird. The Muse has never lifted up her voice to sing.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so richand varied in its productions, and at the same time so habitable by the European, as this is?

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.