A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

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.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

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.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.