How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?

What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.