Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

New occasions teach new duties.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

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

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

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.