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

Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

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

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.