Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.