A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

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

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

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.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.