People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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

Where there is no vision a people perish.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

Tart, cathartic virtue.