It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one |
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one |
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. |
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. |
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. |
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. |
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. |
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. |
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. |
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. |
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears |
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. |
Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications |
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. |
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. |