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

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

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

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.

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

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

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.