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.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.