On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge generally diffused through a community are essential to the preservation of a free government.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.