You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

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

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?