Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

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

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.