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

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

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

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.