Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.

Love is a battle, and I plan to go on fighting. To the end.

I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.