From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

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.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.