Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.