- O star of morning and of liberty!
- If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
- I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
- [on excellence] In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
- All your strength is in union. All your danger is in discord.
- A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
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