Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.
Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.