Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

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

So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

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