Reproof Is A Medicine, Like Mercury Or

Truths, No Matter How Momentous Or Enduring, Are Nothing To The Individual Until He Appreciates Them, And Feels Their Force, And Acknowledges Their Sovereignty. He Cannot Bow To Their Majesty Until He Sees Their Power. All The Blind Then, And All The Ignorant--that Is, All The Children--must Be Educated Up To The Point Of Perceiving And Admitting The Truth, And Acting According To Its Mandates.

Patient Perseverance In Well Doing Is Infinitely Harder Than A Sudden And Impulsive Self-sacrifice.

It Would Be More Honourable To Our Distinguished Ancestors To Praise Them In Words Less, But In Deeds To Imitate Them More.

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.

In Vain Do They Talk Of Happiness Who Never Subdued An Impulse In Obedience To A Principle. He Who Never Sacrificed A Present To A Future Good, Or A Personal To A General One, Can Speak Of Happiness Only As The Blind Speak Of Color.