There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

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.

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

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