Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization. Two reasons sustain this position. In the first place, there is a universality in its operation, which can be affirmed of no other institution whatever... And, in the second place, the materials upon which it operates are so pliant and ductile as to be susceptible of assuming a greater variety of forms than any other earthly work of the Creator.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.