The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
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.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.