When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.