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

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.