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.

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.