If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

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

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

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.

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.

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.