What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!.

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to wha….

They have rights who dare maintain them..

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller..

Time makes ancient good uncouth..

The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desi….

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State wh….

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are th….

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof..

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

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

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….

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

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..

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,….

Folks never understand the folks they hate..

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the ….

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work ….

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne..

And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race..

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many..