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.

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.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.