Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

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.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.