The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

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

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.