Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

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.

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.