There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

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.

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

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

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