A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.