It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

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