Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?

Every burned book enlightens the world.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.