Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

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

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

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

Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

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.