The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

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

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.