Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

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.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

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