The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Children are all foreigners.

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.