Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.