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

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

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

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.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?