Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

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.

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?