As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake i….

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people i….

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be..

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man..

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth..

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of traini….

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it..

To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand u….

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion..

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much..

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students..

To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is..

Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic ….

The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us;– they implore us to thin….

As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratif….

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

So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man ….

In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an ex….

The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might someti….

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one..

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of othe….