Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.