A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

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.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

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.

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

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.