Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

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

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

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.

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.