Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

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