I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.

I never think of death: I am too busy thinking of life.

Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.