It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

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

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

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