"The moral improvement of the nations and their individual components has not kept pace with the march of intellect an…"

"We have already transgressed the limit of safety, and the present disorders of our time are but precursors of other a…"

"It has been said that the modern world is divided between the hot and hasty pursuit of affairs in the hours of labor,…"

"There is a great and crying evil in modern society. It is want of purpose. It is that narrowness of vision which shut…"

"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."

"The very names that ought to be held up as luminaries of honor have become bywords of villainy, and the foul stench o…"

"Statesmen and Philanthropists are busy suggesting remedies for the cure of these great evils. But the renovation of o…"

"Already complaints are multiplying on every hand that that most gracious quality of all that adorns the age of childh…"

"The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. What its great …"

"When we are about to set forth on a path hitherto untried and likely to lead our lives in a new direction, it appears…"