Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

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

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life