Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.