A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.