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

A house without books is like a room without windows.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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.

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

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.