How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Every government is always growing corrupt.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.