Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

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 do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.