Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

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

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

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

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

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.