Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

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.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

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

What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!