Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

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.

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

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.