Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.

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.