praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.