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

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.

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.

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

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.