After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

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

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

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