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

In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.