Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.