By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Every head should be cultivated.