Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.