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.

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

A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

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.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.