We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.