Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

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.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.