We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

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.

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.