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.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.