Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance wheel of the social machinery.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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.
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
