Deeds Survive The Doers.

There Is Nothing Derogatory In Any Employment Which Ministers To The Well-being Of The Race. It Is The Spirit That Is Carried Into An Employment That Elevates Or Degrades It.

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

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.

Patient Perseverance In Well Doing Is Infinitely Harder Than A Sudden And Impulsive Self-sacrifice.

In What Pagan Nation Was Moloch Ever Propitiated By Such An Unbroken And Swift-moving Procession Of Victims As Are Offered To This Moloch Of Christendom, Intemperance.