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.

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

School is the cheapest police.

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