Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.