The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.