Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.

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

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

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

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.