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.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
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.
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
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. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
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.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.
We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .
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