When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Deeds survive the doers.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

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

Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.