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

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.

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.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

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

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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