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.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

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.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

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

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