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

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

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