Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

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

If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

A house without books is like a room without windows.