There Is Nothing So Costly As Ignorance.

There May Be Frugality Which Is Not Economy. A Community, That Withholds The Means Of Education From Its Children, Withholds The Bread Of Life And Starves Their Souls.

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.

Praise Begets Emulation,--a Goodly Seed To Sow Among Youthful Students.

Those Who Exert The First Influence Upon The Mind Have The Greatest Power.

Let The Common School Be Expanded To Its Capabilities, Let It Be Worked With The Efficiency Of Which It Is Susceptible, And Nine Tenths Of The Crimes In The Penal Code Would Become Obsolete; The Long Catalogue Of Human Ills Would Be Abridged; Men Would Walk More Safely By Day; Every Pillow Would Be More Inviolate By Night; Property, Life, And Character Held By A Stronger Tenure; All Rational Hopes Respecting The Future Brightened.