It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.