The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.