He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

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.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

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

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.