Teaching Isn't One-tenth As Effective As Training.

One Thing I Certainly Never Was Made For, And That Is To Put Principles On And Off At The Dictation Of A Party, As A Lackey Changes His Livery At His Master's Command.

As An Apple Is Not In Any Proper Sense An Apple Until It Is Ripe, So A Human Being Is Not In Any Proper Sense A Human Being Until He Is Educated.

Education Is Our Only Political Safety. Outside Of This Ark All Is Deluge.

Manners Easily And Rapidly Mature Into Morals.

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.