Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

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

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.