"When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it wit…"

"You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wre…"

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we mus…"

"The great object of all knowledge is to enlarge and purify the soul, to fill the mind with noble contemplations, to f…"

"No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united …"

"I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you…"

"The admission to Harvard College depends upon examinations; and if this boy passes the examinations, he will be admit…"

"We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable servic…"

"We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing;…"

"Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and priv…"