The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.