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.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

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.