Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.