The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

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

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

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

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.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.