The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, - a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,--habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.