Henry Ward Beecher: “But the Common School gathers up their children and brings them all back again to take a new start together.”

Authority would go with productive greatness, as gravity goes with mass in matter.

It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.

There is a noticeable contrast between Northern and Southern ideas of Religion.

New-England first formed those institutions which liberty requires for beneficient activity; and from her, both before and since the Revolution, they have been copied throughout the Land.