Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

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.

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.

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.