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.
We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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 house without books is like a room without windows.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Deeds survive the doers.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.
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.
We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
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.
The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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