I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

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

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

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.