Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

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

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .