To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.