If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

One must be an inventor to read well.