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.
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.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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.
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 our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
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.
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
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.
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
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