All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.