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

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

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

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

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.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

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