The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

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.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

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

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

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.