“Avoid witicisms at the expense of others.”
“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”
“Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.”
“It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.”
“To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”
“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”
“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.”
“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.”
“Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.”
“If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.”
“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”
“I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.”
“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a 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.”
“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.”
“Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.”
“Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.”
“Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.”
“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.”
“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. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.”