The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds... God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and mak…

The influence of war on the community at large, on its prosperity, its morals, and its political institutions, though less striking than on the soldiery, is ye…

I call that mind free, which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or he…