Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.