I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.