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.

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

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.