Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

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.

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.