Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.

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

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

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

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.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.