Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

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

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

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