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

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.