Knowledge is a mimic creation.

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.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

School is the cheapest police.