God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.