What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

Literature is my Utopia

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.