To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

The poem is a confession of faith.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.