Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

Every wall is a door.

Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

A nation never falls but by suicide.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.