An investment in education always pays the highest returns.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Do not let fancy outrun your means.