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.

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

It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

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