Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.

True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

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.

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

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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.