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.

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us;– they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted by the refining alchemy of education into mental and spiritual treasures; ...and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

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

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.