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

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

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.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.