Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.