Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

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

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.