Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.