Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Education should be as broad as man.

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.