It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

A house without books is like a room without windows.