On Entering This World Our Starting-point Is

Superiority To Circumstances Is One Of The Most Prominent Characteristics Of Great Men.

As An Innovation... The Establishment Of Free Schools Was The Boldest Ever Promulgated, Since The Commencement Of The Christian Era... Time Has Ratified Its Soundness. Two Centuries Proclaim It To Be As Wise As It Was Courageous, As Beneficient As It Was Disinterested. It Was One Of Those Grand Mental And Moral Experiments... The Sincerity Of Our Gratitude Must Be Tested By Our Efforts To Perpetuate And Improve What They Established. The Gratitude Of The Lips Only Is An Unholy Offering.

Let Us Not Be Content To Wait And See What Will Happen, But Give Us The Determination To Make The Right Things Happen.

Man ... Has An Inborn Religious Sentiment That Whispers Of A God To His Inmost Soul, As A Shell Taken From The Deep Yet Echoes Forever The Ocean's Roar.

As Each Generation Comes Into The World Devoid Of Knowledge, Its First Duty Is To Obtain Possession Of The Stores Already Amassed. It Must Overtake Its Predecessors Before It Can Pass By Them.