The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.