There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

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.