Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

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.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

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