It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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?

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

An empire is an immense egotism.

America means opportunity, freedom, power.