Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

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

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.