Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

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

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.