Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
For love of country, they accepted death.
..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.