A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.