New Constellations Of Truth Are

To-day Massachusetts; And The Whole Of The American Republic, From The Border Of Maine To The Pacific Slopes, And From The Lakes To The Gulf, Stand Upon The Immutable And Everlasting Principles Of Equal And Exact Justice. The Days Of Unrequited Labor Are Numbered With The Past. Fugitive Slave Laws Are Only Remembered As Relics Of That Barbarism Which John Wesley Pronounced "the Sum Of All Villainies," And Whose Knowledge Of Its Blighting Effects Was Matured By His Travels In Georgia And The Carolinas.

Even The Choicest Literature Should Be Taken As The Condiment, And Not As The Sustenance Of Life. It Should Be Neither The Warp Nor The Woof Of Existence, But Only The Flowery Edging Upon Its Borders.

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.

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.

Unfaithfulness In The Keeping Of An Appointment Is An Act Of Clear Dishonesty. You May As Well Borrow A Person's Money As His Time.