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

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

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.

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

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

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