Manners Easily And Rapidly Mature Into Morals.

Avoid Witticisms At The Expense Of Others.

If Temperance Prevails, Then Education Can Prevail; If Temperance Fails, Then Education Must Fail.

As All Truth Is From God, It Necessarily Follows That True Science And True Religion Can Never Be At Variance.

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

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.