Bodies Are Cleansed By Water;

Resistance To Improvement Contradicts The Noblest Instincts Of The Race. It Begets Its Opposite. The Fanaticism Of Reform Is Only The Raging Of The Accumulated Waters Caused By The Obstructions Which An Ultra Conservatism Has Thrown Across The Stream Of Progress; And Revolution Itself Is But The Sudden Overwhelming And Sweeping Away Of Impediments That Should Have Been Seasonably Removed.

If Ever There Was A Cause, If Ever There Can Be A Cause, Worthy To Be Upheld By All Of Toil Or Sacrifice That The Human Heart Can Endure, It Is The Cause Of Education. It Has Intrinsic And Indestructible Merits. It Holds The Welfare Of Mankind In Its Embrace, As The Protecting Arms Of A Mother Hold Her Infant To Her Bosom. The Very Ignorance And Selfishness Which Obstructs Its Path Are The Strongest Arguments For Its Promotion, For It Furnishes The Only Adequate Means For Their Removal.

Enslave A Man And You Destroy His Ambition, His Enterprise, His Capacity. In The Constitution Of Human Nature, The Desire Of Bettering One's Condition Is The Mainspring Of Effort. The First Touch Of Slavery Snaps This Spring.

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.

Affectation Hides Three Times As Many Virtues As Charity Does Sins.