I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.

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.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.