A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!

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.

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.