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.

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

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

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.