Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity..

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another..

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy..

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire..

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break..

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect..

The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study….

Avarice is the vice of declining years..

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person..

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape..

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute forc….

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people..

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king..

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the….

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred..

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on aut….

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, ….

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine..

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth..

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle..