It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people ... have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many trick…

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of t…

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Minerva House ... was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smatter…

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generation…