We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

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.

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

The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.