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

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

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.