Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

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.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

There is an army of waiters in this world.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.