Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.