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

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

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.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.