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.

Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.