Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism..

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets..

School is the cheapest police..

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time..

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked..

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchm….

NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the err….

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies of….

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others..

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement ….

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain..

There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for i….

Education is an organic necessity of a human being..

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes..

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it..

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 an….

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing..

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind..

Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of win….

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike..