Genius May Conceive But Patient Labor Must

No Error Is Infused Into The Young Mind, To Lie There Dormant, Or To Be Reproduced Only When The Subject Of Thought Or Action Recurs To Which The Error Belongs; But The Error Becomes A Model Or Archetype, After Whose Likeness The Active Powers Of The Mind Create A Thousand Other Errors.

We Who Are Engaged In The Sacred Cause Of Education Are Entitled To Look Upon All Parents As Having Given Hostages To Our Cause.

Spurn Not At Seeming Error, But Dig Below Its Surface For The Truth; And Beware Of Seeming Truths That Grow On The Roots Of Error.

Forts, Arsenals, Garrisons, Armies, Navies, Are Means Of Security And Defence, Which Were Invented In Half-civilized Times And In Feudal Or Despotic Countries; But Schoolhouses Are The Republican Line Of Fortifications, And If They Are Dismantled And Dilapidated, Ignorance And Vice Will Pour In Their Legions Through Every Breach.

If Evil Is Inevitable, How Are The Wicked Accountable? Nay, Why Do We Call Men Wicked At All? Evil Is Inevitable, But Is Also Remediable.