Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

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.

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.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

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

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.