The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

Deeds survive the doers.

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

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

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

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.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.