To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

History is clarified experience.

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.