In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

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

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

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.