Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization. Two reasons sustain this position. In the first place, there is a universality in its operation, which can be affirmed of no other institution whatever... And, in the second place, the materials upon which it operates are so pliant and ductile as to be susceptible of assuming a greater variety of forms than any other earthly work of the Creator.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.