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

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

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

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.