It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

That best academy, a mother's knee.