Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

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

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

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 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.