Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

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

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.