Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.

My soul is not a palace of the past.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.