Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Genius, when young, is divine.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.