Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

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