In good writing, words become one with things.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.