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

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

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 human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.