Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim o….

More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercis….

It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it….

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire..

All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right….