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.

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 earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

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

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

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.