Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.