It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous ….

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood..

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship..

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime..

Folks never understand the folks they hate..

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the wo….

Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene,….

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State..

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so..

Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap, - You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat.... Look! ….

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle..