Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

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