The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.