Among them, if anywhere, are to be found its
chief elements of destruction.
It matters little what may be the forms of national institution if the
life, freedom, and growth of society are secured.
Finally, our great hope for the future--our great safeguard against
danger--is to be found in the general and thorough education of our
people, and in the virtue which accompanies such education.
The germ of our political institutions, the primary cell from which they
were evolved, was in the New England town, and the vital force, the
informing soul, of the town was the town meeting, which, for all local
concerns, was kings, lords, and commons in all.
It is as much the duty of all good men to protect and defend the
reputation of worthy public servants as to detect public rascals.
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing.
If you are not too large for the place, you are too small for it.
Young men talk of trusting to the spur of the occasion. That trust is
vain. Occasions can not make spurs. If you expect to wear spurs, you
must win them. If you wish to use them, you must buckle them to your own
heels before you go into the fight.
Greek is perhaps the most perfect instrument of thought ever invented by
man, and its literature has never been equaled in purity of style and
boldness of expression.
Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose
feet were shod with wool.
What the arts are to the world of matter, literature is to the world of
mind.
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