There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.