A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
