The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

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