"A great many women and men, too, make a point of never thinking about a subject without having taken a side first."

"The world cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator."

"The heart of man is not so much depraved by nature, as warped by custom."

"The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank, thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can."

"If children are to be educated to understand the true principles of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot; and the love of mankind, from which an orderly train of virtues spring, can only be prod…"