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.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

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.

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.