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.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.