At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

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

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.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.