In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

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

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.