We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.

Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.