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

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

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

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.