Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

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

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.