The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

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

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.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

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

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