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

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

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

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .