The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

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

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.