Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

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.

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

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.

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

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.