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

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

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

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

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

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

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.