Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

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.

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

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.