Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.