Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.

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

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

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

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

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