Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

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.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.