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

"We call him a hero who maintains himself, single-handed, against superior numbers. We call him a master-horseman who …"

"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…"

"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…"

"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 …"

"I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and …"