Avoid Witticisms At The Expense Of Others.

Bodies Are Cleansed By Water; The Mind Is Purified By Truth.

Without Undervaluing Any Other Human Agency, It May Be Safely Affirmed That The Common School, Improved And Energized, As It Can Easily Be, May Become The Most Effective And Benignant Of All The Forces Of Civilization. Two Reasons Sustain This Position. In The First Place, There Is A Universality In Its Operation, Which Can Be Affirmed Of No Other Institution Whatever... And, In The Second Place, The Materials Upon Which It Operates Are So Pliant And Ductile As To Be Susceptible Of Assuming A Greater Variety Of Forms Than Any Other Earthly Work Of The Creator.

It Would Be More Honourable To Our Distinguished Ancestors To Praise Them In Words Less, But In Deeds To Imitate Them More.

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 Its Helper.

Resolve To Edge In A Little Reading Every Day, If It Is But A Single Sentence. If You Gain Fifteen Minutes A Day, It Will Make Itself Felt At The End Of The Year.