Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

When there is no vision, people perish.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.