Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.