There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.