Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

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

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.