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.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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.
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.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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.
There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
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.
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.
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