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 is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
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 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.
