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

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

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.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

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.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.