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.
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
Avoid witticisms at the expense of 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.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
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.
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.