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.
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.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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.
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
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.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
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.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
